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 A Taste of Yeats Summer School in New York
 Saturday, April 20th, 1996
 The Liederkranz Club, 6 E. 87th St.
     Each August aficianados of the poet William Butler Yeats come from 
all over the  world to enjoy two weeks of lectures, readings, and theater in Sligo, Ireland, and to tour nearby "Yeats Country". Here is an opportunity to sample the Summer School fo
r a day in New York. Along with a full day of programs, a luncheon and a social, we will have information on the 1996 Summer School (August 3rd-17th), exhibits, and books (with autographing by speakers) and other items for sale. This event is co-sponsored

 by the W.B. Yeats Society of New York and the Irish American Studies and English Language committees of the United Federation of Teachers, and qualifies for "New Teacher Credit" from the Board of Education.
      9 AM -- Registration and refreshments. (Irish tea, coffee and baked goods available all day)
      10 AM -- Opening remarks.
      10:15 AM -- "The Last Minstrels: Yeats and the Revival of the Bardic Arts"Ronald Schuchard, Professor of English at Emory University and director of the Summer School, describes Yeat's experiments, with the musician Arnold Dolmetsch and the Actress 

Florence Farr, in musical speech and chanting. Their collaboration from 1895 to 1912 attempted to reunite the arts of music and poetry. Recordings and slides.
      11 AM -- "The Woodcarver Storyteller of Sligo". A video visit to the butcher shop across the street from the Yeats Memorial building, where Ireland's Hans Christian Andersen, Michael Quirke, carves images from Celtic mythology in wood while telling 

his own, usually humorous, versions of the stories.
      11:45 AM -- "Under the Moon: the Unpublished Early Poetry". George Bornstein tells about his discovery of 38 poems Yeats wrote in his teens and twenties, collected by Professor Bornstein under that title, which Yeats originally intended to give his 

collected poetry. Bornstein, professor of English at the University of Michigan, will lecture at the coming Summer School.
      12:30 PM -- Lunch - with presentation of awards in our poetry competition and of our scholarship to the Summer School.
      2:15 PM -- "Spoken or Sung on the Stage". Eminent poet and critic M.L. Rosenthal speaks about Yeats' use of song and other poetry in his plays. "I wanted all my poetry to be spoken on a stage or sung..." said Yeats, while the eye takes "delight in t

he form of the singer and in the panorama of the stage."
      3 PM -- Three short plays -- Yeat's "The Dreaming of the Bones" and "A Full Moon in March" and Lady Gregory's "Gaol Gate" presented by the Waterloo Bridge Theater Company and directed by T. Walker Rice.
      4:30 PM -- Social with speakers, actors and special guests.
      6:30 PM -- Dinner and grand craic at the Liederkranz Restaurant -- not included in registration.
      Registration for the program is:
      All day, including lunch, refreshments and afternoon social -- $50. Dinner not included
      Morning session and lunch -- $35
      Afternoon session and social -- $25. Dinner not included.
      Discounts for members of the Society and their guests<BR>
      Send check to W.B. Yeats Society of New York, National Arts Club, 15 Grammercy Park South, New York, NY 10003. Please include name, address and phone number.
     For more on society activities, see our home page at 
http://www.panix.com/~wlinden/yeats.shtml